Character Quotes · Page 332

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” “Perhaps”

— Dalai Lama XIV

“The products your life must have could be in the form of an improved character and virtue.”

— Sunday Adelaja

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.

— Ann Patchett

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

— V. S. Naipaul

“The moral: Money, position, health, handsomeness, and talent aren’t everything.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

The true character stands up when you are deeply tested by life...

— Anonymous

It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to…

— Casey Affleck

“My question is, how and why would a being who has no soul, and no conscience, and no ability to judge between…

— Jim Ford

Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.

— Walter Lippmann

No man can have anything better after faith than a woman of righteous character, loving and child-bearing. And no man can have…

— Umar

I had a very specific goal and I think kids, more than adults, don't understand obstacles and competition. I wanted to be…

— Bob Bergen

You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're…

— Iain Banks

“You create your characters, set things in motion, and then let those characters and the situations they encounter tell you how they’re going to…

— Laird Barron

I've always been battling this perception people have of me, this character. It follows me around. 'Bubba the Bear' shows up when…

— Bobcat Goldthwait

“Give up sainthood, renounce wisdom, and it will be a hundred times better for everyone. Give up kindness, renounce morality, and men…

— Tao Te Ching

The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition,…

— Edward Gibbon

The man of frank and strong prejudices, far from being a political and social menace and an obstacle in the path of…

— Richard M. Weaver

“Surely there can be but one rule of right, if morality has an eternal foundation, and whoever sacrifices virtue, strictly so called,…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

If you have a character stand up and put on her shoes and open the door, in order to do that, you're…

— Alice Mattison

We're not going to deputize a whole bunch of American citizens to start grabbing people or turning them in, in part because…

— Barack Obama

I try to employ a different strategy for each story. Often, I'll have a specific look in mind before I even have…

— Daniel Clowes

“Ability may take you to the top but it takes character to keep you there.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

“Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.”

— Suzy Kassem

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

— Andrew Young

I love doing characters that challenge me. I'd love to do something that requires me to change physically or learn a skill.

— Charlotte Riley

The secret of inner success is constancy to our highest character. -

— Sri Chinmoy

“Karate is not about techniques and their execution, but about boldness, integrity and fight for justice and common good”

— Soke Behzad Ahmadi

My voice has a lot of character and kind of doesn't sound like a lot of people's.

— Kristian Bush

Dad taught us about morals, values and goals. Having a tight-knit family was important to him.

— Junior Seau

Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.

— George Washington

Every director is different. And all the movies are very different, and the characters are very different.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“Power without moral direction is the most dangerous force in the world.”

— Christopher Paolini

Your age doesn't define your maturity, your grades don't define your intellect, and rumors don't define who you are.

— Ritu Ghatourey

You put a character out there and you're in their power. You're in trouble if they're in yours.

— Ann Beattie

If I'm trying to get into character and it's an emotional scene, I'll listen to depressing or really sad music.

— Noah Schnapp

I think having funny characters is just one way of having three-dimensional characters.

— Ti West

It was easier to know a character's point of view than it was to figure out what your point of view was.

— Nick Kroll